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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4432806, member: 72790&quot;]Interesting study, the language of the Etruscans with apparently no connection to any other existing or extinct language. Even considered odd by the ancient Romans who were interested in it as much of Roman religious practice was supposed to have been based on Etruscan beliefs and practices. Supposedly the emperor Claudius made a study of it which has not survived. There was a British gentleman by the name of Michael Ventris who was a cryptologist during WWII for the British. I have read that he was a true genius and that he was responsible for determining that one of the languages of the Minoan-Mycenaean world was a dialect of Greek, something not known until he cracked the code circa 1950. He next started working on Etruscan and it was believed that if anyone could do that it would have been him. He was killed in an auto accident and his work died with him. Actually I did not know for the longest time that there was an Etruscan coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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